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Bereavement

Children & young people will deal with unexpected and unwelcome change in many different ways. Talking with children about death is always uncomfortable and can be more difficult when children have special educational needs or disabilities.

We also need to think about the emotional resilience of staff and other adults who may be offering support. They may also be touched by the bereavement or it may remind them of other personal or professional trauma's.

Sheffield resources:

• Student Well-Being Resource, Learn Sheffield

• Sheffield Mental Health Guide: Bereavement

• Sheffield Directory

• Listening Ear - support for those bereaved during the coronavirus pandemic in South Yorkshire

• South Yorkshire - Amparo Amparo is the commissioned suicide bereavement service, available to anyone living or working in Sheffield

• Chilypep: Walk With Us Toolkit - support for children, young people and families affected or bereaved by suicide 

• Child Death Processes, SCSP Child Death Overview Panel (CDOP)

Sheffield Educational Psychology Service (SEPS):

SEPS have created some useful leaflets to support children, families & staff:

• What are the special challenges of bereavement?

• What do children & young people want and need?

• Explaining Death

• The Role of education settings

• Practical things you can do in a setting

• How can family and friends help?

• Funerals and Memorial Arrangements

• Behaviour

• Multi-cultural considerations

• Resources

National resources:

• Coronavirus: How schools can support children and young people Winston's Wish

• Childhood Bereavement Network

• Cruse

Other relevant information can be found on this website here: Information and resources or in the index on the left side of this page.

If you are concerned about a child or young person, follow this link: Referring a safeguarding concern to Children’s Social Care